Hello and welcome
I’m Eoin and this is Uncovered History. I originally envisioned it as a blog about History Books lost in the bowels of libraries, private collections and all the other places where they do no-one any good. It was meant to be about words trapped on pages and it is about how technology is helping me and you read them again as the writers and the words intended.
But it has changed and adapted over time and as I find my time only allows less than regular posts I have shifted territory to write about events (both Irish and global) that strike a chord with me because they are either lesser know, like the Stockholm Bloodbath I wrote of recently, or have been somewhat ignored by history like WT Cosgrave or Arthur Griffith.
I make no apology for this change, I’m writing for pleasure. If you don’t like the shift then so be it! I hope you will however!
I write another blog* on publishing and part of that site involved visiting and working on Google Book Search. It struck me that one of the enormous values Google Book Search and other book indexing site are offering is free access to books that have long since fallen out of readership.
They may once have been well read and acknowledged as fine examples of their genres but now these books exist as part of the shelves of libraries (Often stored in their less read warehouse sections) the shelves of private collectors or as the stock of second hand antique and rare booksellers. Indexation and digitisation has saved them from ending their days in that way. It harks back to a conversation started by Jeff Jarvis who said “Print is where words go to die“.
When possible, I’ll include work that Google has digitized and try and spread the knowledge from them as widely as I can! It should be fun!
If you have suggestions for topics with the following fields: history, politics, economics, society and global affairs then e-mail me at
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eoinpurcellsblogATgmail.com
Notes
*If you are interested you can read it here
